Barry P. McDonald

Biography

Professor McDonald teaches courses in constitutional Law, First Amendment law, comparative
constitutional law, intellectual property law and contracts law. He is a recognized
expert on constitutional law and the U.S. Supreme Court, and is frequently interviewed
or writes in such major media outlets as The New York Times, The Washington Post,
The CBS Evening News, CNN, Fox News, National Public Radio and The Los Angeles Times.
He is also a recognized scholar in the area of constitutional law and First Amendment
law. Since joining the Pepperdine faculty in 2000, he has published numerous articles
and essays in such prominent journals as the Emory Law Journal, Illinois Law Review,
Northwestern University Law Review, Notre Dame Law Review, Ohio State Law Journal
and Washington & Lee Law Review. His current projects include a book on the U.S. Constitution
entitled Our Dangerous Written Constitution.

At Northwestern Law, Professor McDonald received the Order of the Coif, the Arlyn
Miner Legal Writing Award, and was an associate editor of the Northwestern Law Review.
After graduation, he clerked for the Chief Justice of the United States, William H.
Rehnquist, during the 1989-90 Term of the Supreme Court, and before that the Honorable
James K. Logan of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit. Following his clerkships,
Professor McDonald worked for the U.S. Department of State, the law firm of Gibson,
Dunn & Crutcher, and served as general counsel to two different technology companies.

Professor McDonald is currently a member of the Bar of the Supreme Court of the United
States, the State Bar of California, the American Bar Association, and the American
Association of Law Schools (AALS). He also serves on the Scholarly Research Committee
of the Southeastern Association of Law Schools (SEALS), and has served as a SEALS
scholarship mentor for junior faculty. Professor McDonald is also a member of the
Litigation Advisory Committee of the national board of the Presbyterian Church of
the U.S.A. In 2008, he served as the 2008 Chairperson of the Mass Communications Law
Section of the AALS, and continues to serve on the section's Executive Committee.